Comments on: Foreign Jihadis Flock To Afghanistan

Fighters From Wider Muslim World Flood In, Boosting Taliban's Deadliness

[husein_pasha]

GOP= Gangsters` Oppression Party

[libo_nazi]

George W. Bush eagerly sends more Americans to the Middle East and he supports the high cost of petroleum.

Posted by Petro49L at 08:20 AM : Jul 18, 2008

I guess you don''t read the news much. With Bush''s support for US offshore drilling, mining of shale oil, and drilling in ANWR...you can see what an obvious azzclown you are for making this statement.

[husein_pasha]

This war is generating Islamist opinions in all secular countries

[rwassel]

perceptions5 - The continued ignorance that you right-wing nutjobs continue to display on these blogs amazes me. Do you really think that once we go BACK to Afghanistan, the same thing won''t happen in Iraq when (if) we leave?

The FACT is we had the entire world, and the majority of our citizens on our side when we invaded Afghanistan. Osama was there (do you remember him? he was the mastermind of 9-11), and it was a just war.

But, our idiot-in-chief failed there, and sadly, with the current state of Afghanistan being a hcane for terrorists, and the fact we have not found Osama 7 years later, we lost that war. This was 100% due to our grand diversion into Iraq.

Seriously, your attempts to make it seem like Bush did a good job with the War on Terror are just laughable.

[petro49l]

Rank and file Arabs join Taliban, but they will meet a certain death. Many Americans will perish, as well. The Saudis justify the rising oil prices with the extensive fighting in the region. Bin Laden demands an extreme count of dead bodies, after each battle. George W. Bush eagerly sends more Americans to the Middle East and he supports the high cost of petroleum. Why should this country play the Saudi game?

[rwassel]

We can''t be troubled with terrorists flooding into Afghanistan. We''re fighting the true War on Terror in Iraq. Right? Right?

But since all the neocons on here seem to think Iraq is going so well, I''m sure our troops will be out of there within weeks.

[magoo2u1]

"poor American doesn''''t deserve this - we are not an imperialistic society."

noun-the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, OR of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.

Read your history book. Just ''cause we don''t have colonies doesn''t mean we aren''t imperialists.

Afghanistan was " The Empire strikes back" and Iraq is "A bridge too far".

Think about it. Or don''t- not thinking about it is why the company you work for brought 35 people over from India to take the jobs Americans don''t know the math to qualify for.
Ohmygosh ,like , you know, this Ipod like really matches my pants, like, you know !! Mall trip !!!

[closethippy1]

This is simply amazing. It''s like starting all over again.
I can''t believe what Bush is putting our soldiers through, first with a most unnecessary war in Iraq and because of it Afghanistan all over again.
The whole thing is just so unreal and depressing. I hope someone in the military takes care of Jr. I really, really hope so.

[perceptions5]

The Surge has worked and our job in Iraq is coming to an end. (no thanks to the Democrats or their close pals in our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack press)

The US trained Iraqi Armed Forces along with the police forces are performing like they''ve been trained by US forces, really great.

We now need to draw down our forces with Bush and the Generals on the ground are planning right now.

That will leave the Afgan conflict as the last one to settle.

YES Bush ran the war badly for a few years but for the past 1 1/2 years we''ve made the right corrections.

Of course Obama is being "stubborn" and sticking to his 16 month withdraw plan regardless of the conditions in Iraq. Not exactly the Commander-in-Chief that America needs at this moment.

Great job to General Petraeus and the fantastic men and woman of the greatest US institution, the US Armed Forces...................................................!

[timdgrim]

Unfortunately, we will probably learn the same lesson that Russia learned back in the 80''s, when they were there for a decade, you can''t win a conventional war there. The Bush regime has done nothing but stir up these fanatics to where the whole Muslim world is willing to fight us to the end. Maybe, that''s where we''re headed. A worldwide war of religions...sad.

[samsel3]

There are no benefits for Americans in Afghanistan. Your tax dollars and cumulative borrowed debt to finance these operations only benefit the corporations who purchased the oil& gas rights in the Caspian Sea Basin, nothing more nothing less.

July 15, 2008 Bush morning news conference:" Everything''s going well so far in the Caspian Basin "....

And the extermination continues:...........


February 12, 1998 John J. Maresca vp of UNOCAL oil appeared before a House sub committee. The purpose of the meeting was to gain support for exploitation of oil & natural gas resources, for the rights purchased by BIG OIL in the Caspian Sea area.

In his testimony he stated, "The key question is how the energy resources of Central Asia can be made available to nearby Asian markets ".

The exploitation option stated : "One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed by American companies because of U.S. sanctions (with Iran ) . The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which of course has it''s own unique challenges. " He continued saying, " the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments,lenders (world monitary fund & world bank ) ,and our company "......"

[irliberal]

Every second our forces are over there we create new jihadists. It is time for Afghanistan and Iraq to solve their religious problems by themselves. We have our own religious nuts here at home we need to worry about.

[neoconrcrazy]

the bush "war on terror", highly publicized, politically motivated failure has now mushroomed into a succession of new problems to confront.

poor American doesn''t deserve this - we are not an imperialistic society.

[smirk5]

We''re fighting them in Iraq so they can fight us in Afghanistan instead. Or, according to Chertie, we''re fighting them in Iraq so they can get EU passports and fight us here instead.